Evening Spring by August Derleth (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. Small octavo. Condition: chip and minor nicking to top edge of DJ; minor rubbing to bottom edge of front & rear covers; else very good in good DJ. Pages: xi, 308.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Very Good--/Good Black cloth hardcover with dust jacket. Some soiling and staining to boards and browning to pages. (Mostly browning to endpapers) Dust jacket has rubbing and edgewear and small chips and tears. Nice solid copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing with A on copyright page. A very good copy in a fair DJ with considerable edge wear but surprisingly bright colors, now protected in removable archival mylar. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. More available upon request. This book is in my possession and will be packed in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #C5.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Limited edition - 2990 copies printed. Green lettering on gold striped black covers. 8vo, 308 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Only year 1945 on copyright page. Inscription by August Derleth on front end paper. Black cloth covered boards are clean and bright. Embossed lettering of title on covers and spine bright and unmarred. Binding is firm and fully in tact- pages are well attached - no loose pages. DJ is clean and not price clipped. Price on inside flap is $3.50. DJ is bright with light shelf wear with some rubbing along the folds and spine.Light fading on spine. DJ in mylar jacket. End papers are browning and page edges lightly browning. This book is over 77+ years old. No creases or tears on pages. Inscribed by Author(s).

Octavo, cloth. Later edition. This semi-autobiographical story was probably Derleth's favorite among his novels. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with some light wear along top edges of front and spine panels. (#173936).

HARDCOVER. Condition: FINE IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J. LATER PRINTING. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY SCRIBNER'S IN 1941 WITH A NEW 5 PAGE FOREWARD BY THE AUTHOR BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. HAS A TOUCH OF RUBBING TO THE MAUVE COLOR FRONT PANEL, MODEST CORNER AND SPINE-END RUB, AND IS PRICE-CLIPPED. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK.

Hardcover. hardcover. near fine near fine jacket bumping.

Hardcover. Condition: G+. Dust Jacket Condition: G+. First Edition Thus. 308 pp, the book and contents are clean and tight, the covers have some light lower edge rubbing, dust jacket has some light scuffing and edge wear, the AUTHOR HAS SIGNED A SHORT INSCRIPTION. Author Signed Inscription.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover corners and edges are lightly rubbed. Binding is tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Some corner folding. No marks to text. Stanton and Lee edition. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Condition: Fair. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons 1941. 1st with Scribner 'A' and seal on copyrt pg. Hardcover 8vo 308 pgs. Good with no dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt on front cover. Gilt on spine is worn off. Spine ends and corners worn. Toning to endpapers. Contents clean and binding sound. (literature, fiction) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. black cloth, 308 pp, first edition thus, Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. VG+/VG+. SOILD,TIGHT COPY WITH SOME PAGEDGE SOIL AND TWO BUMPS TO BOARD EDGE. DW SHOWS WEAR,EDGEWEAR,SOME SOIL. Illustrated by HBACK. FIRST edition. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR and warmly inscribed to Brother Leo Ryan with the significant line "My favorite among my novels - for obvious reasons." Aside from price clipping, a very fine, clean copy protected by an archival Mylar jacket cover. Signed.

Hardcover. First thus. 21 x 14 cm. Octavo. 308 pages. Black cloth with green lettering and gold lines in dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by the author, August Derleth, on the front free endpaper: "For Linda / The way it was / August Derleth". The dust jacket is not price clipped and the price of $3.50 is evident. Some rubbing and edgewear to the dust jacket and the spine of the dust jacket is lightly sun faded. There is some toning to the inside front and rear cover and front and rear endpapers. Originally published in 1941 by Charles Scribner's and Sons, this is the first thus of the Stanton and Lee printing with same date on title and copyright page and no additional printings by this publisher noted. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Originally copyrighted by the author in 1941 and published by Charles Scribner's Sons.This edition published in 1945. Price clipped dust jacket is the first state jacket for this edition by Frank Utpatel with the evening street scene. Jacket has light spine end wear and small chip to lower edge of front panel, now protected with paper back polyester film. Inscribed on recto of the front free end page "for Don Little - / my own favorite - / for obvious reasons/ Cordially, / August Derleth". Book has offset to end papers. 308 pages. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. HBDJ, 1945, 1st edition, Dates Match on Title & copyright page, VG-/GOOD+, Interior nice tight clean light FOX, Wear, DJ Small Triangular Chip Top Left edge but titles & Illustration INTACT, DJ tiny chips Tears Wear extremities, 308 pgs, DJ spine top edge chip out removing word Evening, Black cloth with Gold gilt Decoration on front & Lettered in Green Cover lite Wear & tiny corner Ding, Gold gilt decoration on spine cvr, Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stanton and Lee. Sauk City, Wisconsin. 1945. 308 pages. First Stanton and Lee edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by author and Arkham House founder, August Derleth. Signed, inscribed and doodled on FFEP: For __ __, My Favorite Novel, Sincerely, August Derleth, with a drawn smiliey face. Originally, Evening in Spring was published by Charles Scribners & Sons in 1941. Derleth re-released the title with Stanton & Lee in 1945 with his preferred DJ, a Frank Utpatel designed DJ with a girl on the street at dusk; hence this is a first edition thus. Derleth considered this title his finest work (and favorite per his inscription.) An autobiographical novel of first love beset by small-town religious bigotry. The work received critical praise from The New Yorker, amongst others. Book is tight; binding and hinges are sound. Light rubbing to black cloth panels. Toning to endpapers, mostly in gutters. DJ shows light handling along edges with a couple of small rubs and shallow chips. A nice signed presentation copy; VG/VG. Signed by Author(s).

First edition. Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-2] 3-308, original black cloth, front and spine stamped in gold and blue, top edge stained dark blue, A novel in the author's "Sac Prarie Saga," set in the Sauk City/Prarie du Sac area of Wisconsin. "This work Derleth considered among his finest. What The Milwaukee Journal called "this beautiful little love story," is an autobiographical novel of first love beset by small town religious bigotry. The work received critical praise: The New Yorker considered it a story told "with tenderness and charm," while the Chicago Tribune concluded: "It's as though he turned back the pages of an old diary and told, with rekindled emotion, of the pangs of pain and the sharp, clear sweetness of a boy's first love." Helen Constance White, wrote in The Capital Times that it was ".the best articulated, the most fully disciplined of his stories." - D'Ambrosio, A WEE BIT OF WISCONSIN, pp. 33-34. Damp stain to lower rear cover and rear free end paper, some loss to gilt of spine lettering, a very good copy in very good dust jacket with damp stain mainy to verso of rear panel and spine panel with some show through. (19916).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition with the "A" on the copyright page; a near fine book in a near fine dust jacket. An outstanding copy of this novel that is a part of Derleth's Sac Prairie Saga. This book is in near fine condition with only mild shelf wear to the spine ends and board edges, and some minor fading to the spine lettering, else fine. Housed in a near fine dust jacket that is bright and vibrant showing some light rubbing and chipping to the spine ends, edges, and corners, and some minor discoloration to the flap edges. Overall, an exceptional copy that may have been read carefully one time, if at all. Not remaindered, not price clipped (2.50 intact), and not ex-library. In archival protection.